The speech from the house of God. Part 2.

1. Pardon my ignorance, but here are some stupid and awkward questions.
Isn't a leave from the CJ necessary before sending the petition? If it's not necessary, then, 1001 convicted felons can also deluge the UN with their petitions. Then the chicken thieves, the people who stole milk, the rapists and the paedophiles can all send their petitions to the UN. Yahoo! Hooray!

2. Is intervention, and therefore interference by the UN, a new normal for us? Are we in a state of horrendous legal catastrophe that require a multinational UN legal force to police our behaviour?

3. isn't the sending of the petition a terrible indictment on our justice system? Ours is defective and the judges at the federal courts are idiots, is it? Mind you, all 3 levels of courts reached the same conclusion. It would require a celestial bolt of lightning to change the guilty verdict.

4. Here's the final question. Isn't the sending of the petition, the highest act of defiance, bordering on treason? We are willing to sacrifice our laws and substitute them with the laws of the UN? Big brother is going to watch over us. We are going to be an Orwellian society.

5. The 3rd development, which thumps the PM at his nose, was the arrest of the joker who is related to mahiadin's sil. He is alleged to mastermind a direct nego business deal of some 95b. That's scandalous.

6. We are glad that he was arrested by sprm. But what is the outcome? Is he going to be freed to enjoy his commission and as usual the scandal will be swept under the plush carpets in Putrajaya?

7. These developments will certainly test the PM's resolve. Luckily, as he said, he has a team that thinks likewise. The team also wants to clean up the mess.

8. Unfortunately, I think that is more an expression of hope rather than an expression of reality. These developments show some members of his team are not alert or are sleeping on the job.

9. The law minister was surprisingly silent on these developments. The home minister doesn't seem to know what to do , other than visiting here and there.

10. Najib is escorted to court like a VIP, in glass tinted cars and outriders. He is wearing Gucci or zegna 3 piece suits instead of prison garb and is not handcuffed. Lesser mortals will be subject to the usual prisoner sop.

11. So, the PM's claim that he is aided by a likewise thinking team is long in hope, but short in realty. Clearly some members of his team, who matter now, are mediocre and are of grade C eggs quality.

12. The new year Eve speech, and the munajat that followed suit, is significant for a number of reasons.

13. The speech was given in a mosque in Putrajaya. Meaning, it was directed chiefly at Malay Muslim civil servants.

14. Having to begin his speech by exhorting his audience that all efforts must be exerted to create a clean government to attract investments, is a telling point.

15. Let me address the issue of the elephant in the room and take the bull by the horns. Could it be that the Malay Muslim civil servants are the main culprits holding back efforts to create good governance?

16. They, with their Hobbesian mentality, undermined all efforts to create good governance. They opposed the creation of a clean government, free of corruption, abuse of power, wastage. Furthermore, they create all kind of problems to exact commissions, and they pooh-poohed distributive justice.

17. Before we discuss good governance and good government further, let us think of how to make Malaysia an attractive place to invest.

18. Unfortunately, the PM mentioned this en passant only. And as usual, the real sting of the whole speech is hidden behind the usual linguistic gobbledygook and argle- bargle of the speech.

19. To attract foreign investments, there must be excellent transportation and communications infrastructure. These were not spelt out clearly by the PM

20. The transportation infrastructure appears to be well-placed under the energetic and capable hands of Anthony Loke. The communications infrastructure require improvement and pragmatism.

21. Ignore the noises and the ass braying of the language nationalists. Make English the 2nd official language of business communication. Civil servants must be able to communicate in good English. Credit passes must be a must in their resume.

22. Wading through the phooey and hooey of the PM's rhetoric, the gist of his speech is as follows:-
23. To make Malaysia an attractive place to invest requires:-
*We must have an excellent civil service
* An excellent civil service must incorporate a number of characteristics.
* There must be distributive justice
* The civil service must be close to the ground.


24. But I doubt it if many in the audience realized that it behoves them to galvanize themselves into an excellent civil service. Instead, many of them are easily mesmerized by the PM's artful presentation of his speech.

25. They are accustomed to living with a mediocrity. They hold back efforts to make Malaysia an attractive place to invest by being what they are.

26. Which is a bunch of people comfortable being incompetent, non performers, layabouts, fond of luxury living through corruption, abuse of powers, pulling ranks, earning commissions and the like.

27. Perhaps they are like these sorry individuals as a result of an extreme interpretation of what bumiputraism is.

28. Bumiputra-ism to them means they are naturally entitled to. They are naturally entitled to being incompetent, entitled to being corrupt, entitled to abuse of power, right to waste, right to do as they pleased. They are entitled to all these precisely because they are BUMIPUTRA. When umno was in power, because they are BUMIPUTRA and UMNOPUTRA.

29. So now, they find themselves to be the subject of the PM's speech. However, the PM paid scant treatment of this aspect and thus lost a golden opportunity to drive home the point of what entails an excellent civil service.

30. I am sorry to say that the PM's speech wasn't as structured as we would like it to be. Meaning, not much thought was given to it, especially on the aspect of what it takes to create an excellent civil service.

31. But nevermind, as the Malay Muslim audience in the mosque,are easily mesmerized by the bombastic rhetoric of the PM. The hooray and yahoo crowd will insist that it was and is an excellent speech.

To be continued in part 3.